Kate Middleton reveals who the real boss of the royal household is

What the boss wants, the boss gets - no matter how cute she is. (Image: Getty)

Hint: It's certainly not Prince William.

You can have as much status and wealth as you like – but your power means nothing when it comes to ordering a toddler around the house.

That’s the reality for the Duchess of Cambridge, who has revealed that the real boss of the royal family is none other than Princess Charlotte, who turns two in May this year.

According toPeople, the revelation that the royal household runs to the beat of this plucky toddler’s drum came after Kate attended the unveiling of a war memorial last week.

Chatting with fellow mother-of-two Samantha Burge at the event, the Duchess revealed that bossing Princess Charlotte around Kensington Palace is a task easier said than done.

“She said that Charlotte is growing up really fast. She is the one in charge,” Burge divulged.

“We have both got 2-year-olds and they are ruling the roost. It was a bit of a mummy chat. They are both becoming really good friends, George and Charlotte.”

It’s not the first time we’ve been given insight into Princess Charlotte’s assertive streak – just a month ago Kate let slip about how “fiercely competitive” both of her children are in a training session with marathon icon Paula Radcliffe.

“I think we were just having a laugh about how children are naturally competitive,” Radcliffe told the Daily Mail.

“She was saying [her] children are competitive and I was saying that I think it is a good thing and that we should nurture competitiveness in children.”

In fairness, things can’t be easy when you’re born into the world’s most watched family (excluding the Kardashians of course) – where even playing with balloons becomes an international story.

The “terrible twos” comes about as a result of extremely fast brain development, where a child experiences radical improvements in speech, physical speed (any parent who’s chased them around the shopping centre can relate to that) and emotional variability.

All of these factors drive your child to think that they don’t really need you, which causes them to cycle instantly between moods and behaviours.

At least you can rest with the knowledge that unlike Princess Charlotte, your child is probably not fourth in line to inherit the throne.